10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIENESE»
Discover the use of
Sienese in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Sienese and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sienese Renaissance Tomb Monuments
These works include contributions by such noted sculptors as Jacopo della Quercia, Il Vecchietta, Neroccio de'Landi, Giovanni di Stefano, & Urbano da Cortona, as well as a number of monuments by assorted anonymous followers of Donatello.
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Siena, Civil Religion, and the
Sienese
Exploring how the Palio has become the principal means of sustaining and celebrating Sienese culture, values and identity - including popular devotion to the Virgin - Parsons shows how this festival stands in continuity with the earlier ...
3
Sienese Painting: The Art of a City-Republic 1278-1477
The works are also placed in their social and religious context through discussion of Siena's system of government, its civic consciousness, the importance of the Franciscan movement and the cults of local saints." - back cover.
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Italian Paintings:
Sienese and Central Italian Schools : a ...
The Museum's Sienese and Central Italian paintings are discussed in alphabetical order by artist, with a brief biography of each.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Federico Zeri, Elizabeth E. Gardner, 1980
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Siena and the
Sienese in the Thirteenth Century
This 1991 book portrays the life and institutions of a great medieval Italian city, Siena.
Daniel Philip Waley, 2006
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Sienese Painting After the Black Death: Artistic Pluralism, ...
Judith Steinhoff demonstrates that Siena's artistic culture of the mid- and late fourteenth century was intentionally pluralistic, and not conservative as is often claimed.
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Sienese Painting: From Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century
Investigates the history and characteristics of painting in Siena between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, focusing on Siena's most prominent artists, such as Duccio, Lorenzetti, and Martini
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The
Sienese Trecento Painter Bartolo Di: Fredi.
This study follows the stylistic evolution of Bartolo di Fredi, who studied with Niccolo di Ser Sozzo, and was influenced by the giants of the early Trecento: Martini, da Siena, and Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
Patricia Harping, Bartolo (di Fredi), 1993
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A
Sienese Codex of The Divine Comedy
A commentary on an illuminated text of Dante's Divine Comedy by Lorenzo Vecchietta and Giovanne Di Paolo, together with selected reproductions of the illustrations.
Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, 1947
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McGarr and the
Sienese conspiracy
Inspector McGarr's investigation into the murder of three high-ranking members of the British Secret Service takes him to an oil rig in the North Sea and to the medieval town of Siena in Italy
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SIENESE»
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Sienese is used in the context of the following news items.
Siena: City of Secrets, by Jane Tylus
Sienese art of the trecento was extraordinarily impressive, if not sumptuous, and Tylus discusses these achievements with great sensitivity and sophistication. «Times Higher Education, May 15»
Profumo leaves Monte Paschi with mixed record
The veteran Italian banker will leave as chair of the Sienese lender after its next rights issue. Alessandro Profumo revamped MPS governance but the bank's ... «Breakingviews, Mar 15»
The Sienese headache
MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA (MPS), the world's oldest bank, was founded by the city state of Siena in 1472 to offer cheap loans to the poor. Yet despite the ... «The Economist, Nov 14»
Hull's Ferens Art Gallery set for huge 2014, with Pietro Lorenzetti's …
The artwork was painted by Sienese old master Pietro Lorenzetti in about 1320AD, more than a century before Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci arrived on ... «Hull Daily Mail, Dec 13»
The Sienese Are Whipping Each Other with Dried Bulls' Penises as …
His beat is the Palio, a spectacular 90-second bareback horse race run twice a year around Siena's central plaza, the Piazza del Campo, in which jockeys are ... «VICE, Aug 13»
Life is good in Italy's medieval jewel, Siena
Today, the self-assured Sienese remember their centuries-old accomplishments with pride. In the 1300s, Siena was one of Europe's largest cities and a major ... «The Seattle Times, Aug 13»
Monte dei Paschi, Venerable Italian Bank, Yields to Change
Other changes approved at the meeting will allow more frequent turnover on the board, which had been dominated by the foundation and Sienese political ... «New York Times, Jul 13»
8 things to know and share about St. Catherine of Siena
Like the Sienese saint, every believer feels the need to be conformed with the sentiments of the heart of Christ to love God and his neighbour as Christ himself ... «National Catholic Register, Apr 13»
Exhibition reunites biblical art and maps development of adoration
... Biblical Art and Bruce Boucher of University of Virginia Art Museum, who garnered substantial support and collaboration from the Italian and Sienese cultural ... «National Catholic Reporter, Aug 12»
'The Adoration of the Magi' at Museum of Biblical Art
The Sienese style they collectively shaped was defined by the interplay of two seemingly antithetical preferences, one being descriptive realism and the other ... «New York Times, Aug 12»
